REGION – A number of area groups have joined together to sponsor a special virtual discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 16 entitled “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.”
The event will take place via Zoom at 7 p.m. It will feature author Richard Rothstein, who will help lead the discussion.
“Residential segregation was created in the mid-twentieth century by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policies that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in which African Americans were prohibited from participating,” a press release noted. “[Rothstein’s] lecture will educate attendees on the history of these policies so they can be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy the unconstitutional racial landscape.”
The Friends of the Shrewsbury Public Library, the Shrewsbury Rotary Club, A Better Shrewsbury, the Grafton Public Library, the Westborough Public Library and the Southborough Public Library are among the list of entities helping make this event possible.
Register to attend by visiting https://tinyurl.com/z8x6kmvc.
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